The Narcissist is a Counterfeit Human Being: The main problem for the narcissist is that he has never paid respect to or given his true personality and persona a chance to develop. Let's give a brief overview of the two most common causes for narcissism. The narc's parents either forced the narc to put on an act or show certain unnatural personality traits for the parents to give the narc positive feedback. So this is the common theme for either the neglected narc child or the overindulged narc child, both of the two never had their true personalities acknowledged. The neglected narc's true personality was not acknowledged, so he had to be false to get through his childhood. The overindulged narc's childhood was one of unmerited praise and acknowledgment, not positive and accurate feedback for the actual person this child was, again causing a disconnect between the actual person and the person the outside world saw. Both narcs intuitively or subconsciously understood this. So the pattern of presenting a false persona to the world became a habit, or an addiction if you want to call it that, since and addiction is a habit that is self destructive. If anything could be said about narcissism you would have to call it destructive and the longer it goes on in a person's life unacknowledged the more destruction it causes to the narc as well as to the outside world. The Narcissist then, because he is unable to interact with the world with a genuine persona , is forced to trade with the world in a counterfeit persona. As an example, the value of a 100 Dollar bill is only in the fact that everyone agrees to assign a value of 100 Dollars to an otherwise relatively worthless peace of paper. All parties involved TRUST the value of that peace of paper and it can therefore serve as an exchange for something that you buy that is WORTH 100 dollars. That 100 dollars represents a unit of work that another person needs to do in order to earn that 100 Dollars. The whole system is based on trust and that is how society functions. A counterfeiter uses their shrewdness and finds a shortcut. Why do the unit of work to get 100 Dollars, when it is much easier to FAKE the 100 Dollars. Take the easy way out. If the vast majority of people decided to counterfeit the currency, all of society would break down, since nothing could be trusted. The shrewd counterfeiter might consider themselves quite clever to be able to deceive the fools who take their currency to have value on blind trust, but isn't that counterfeiter only deceiving themselves as to how clever they are? It takes intelligence to create, the shrewd person merely takes advantage of things and finds shortcuts. That is neither a useful or productive way of utilizing the mind. Sure, many have gotten rich “gaming the system”, some major companies have been formed that way, but almost always the shrewd person's gain comes at the expense of those who are honest players. The narc operates in a similar fashion. He simply goes “off the grid' of normal human interactions. Most people will trust someone to a certain extent and could never expect another human being to be totally devoted to lies and duplicity, so this is where the narc has free reign in deceiving others. Sadly, the narc is actually proud of deceiving others and considers himself quite clever and thinks those he deceives deserving of all he does because of their stupidity. Lets take the analogy a bit further. You can use that counterfeit 100 Dollar bill to do a lot of good. You can feed the homeless, you can help someone pay their bills, but here is the problem: all of those good and positive things are being done with stolen and fake currency and the so called benefactor, who seems to be so generous and kind and empathetic is simply putting on a show of spending the fruits of his hard labor on those who are less fortunate. In actuality the person giving away the counterfeit currency is doing three things: One: they are making themselves feel good and two: if others can watch his generosity, also getting the accolades of those who observe and three: they are making a pretense of giving away an item of value that has cost them something, when in actuality, it cost them nothing. How does this relate to the narcissist? The narcissist is big on making a show of his generosity and devotion to causes, but won't give a penny of charity to those who need it from him, because that penny of charity would actually cost him something. So yes, the narc will want to associate with global initiatives, feeding the hungry, animal rights, etc. and if they can hobnob with prominent people all the better. The narc will champion and publicly be concerned about suicide prevention, while at the very same time purposely bring their former partner to the verge of suicide. The narc will publicly work themselves to the bone for a poor needy animal who is suffering, but let their partner starve to death or die of thirst emotionally, when the slightest gesture of compassion could ease incredible suffering. The narc will give nothing that actually costs him something and gets him nothing in return, Not even one penny, NOTHING. Those he has no use for, people he only two weeks previous professed undying love for can rot to death as far as he is concerned. So the narc's good works are just as counterfeit as that 100 Dollar bill. There is no real value in that counterfeit 100 Dollar bill and no real value in the outward good works of the narc, since there are no genuine motivations behind those good works. Yes, counterfeit people (and counterfeit religions as well) can do a lot of good, but this is still based upon a false premise, and a stolen merit or value. Thank you as always for watching. Comments are welcomed.